The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-22
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anu weighs lou pounuS.
A TENLrNE ADVERTISEMENT inserted once in all
the papers in the United States would only cost
| $4,000.
NIGHT LAMPS in the shape of an owl are the
latest in that line The lamp is in the body, and
the light comes from the eyes.
AN old lady of Versailles was so anxious to
see Pranzinis execution that she paid Sc day
for a week for a room opposite the prison.
AT the jubilee celebration at DENLY Dale there
was pie weighing "a tons, containing $40
pounds of flour, 230 pounds of butter and lard,
2s3 birds of all Sorts and 81 rabbits.
SIC. VERDI has temporarily exchanged music
for charitable work. He is busy founding hos
pital near his country place, st. Agata, and has
himself sketched out the plans of the building
besides finding the money. He spends all his
mornings watching and advising the workmen.
His stables form another hobby.
AT one of Lady Burdett-Coutts' garden parties
recently a gentleman, speaking of Christine
Nilsson called her 1.-The Swedish nightingale"
Immediately thin old woman jumped up in a
rage and pointing her finger at him, eX-
claimed: You are wrong, sir; you are grossly
wrong; | am the Swedish nightingale: I am
Jenny Lind"
HENRY LEVY, an old defender, died at Jarrets-
vile, Hartford county, Maryland, Sept 4, aged
05 years He was wounded at Bladensburg,
| and has been pensioner for more than fifty
the same age and probably the Oldest survivor
in Hartford county, is quite feeble at his home
near The Black Horse.
NEGRO, living near Lexington, Ca, gave an
| account the other day of remarkable rainfall.
He said that it trained hard 'nough on half of
the top of my house to run off, but 'tother side
wasn't hardly wet. Twas a good shower,
distance in front of de house. but it didn't lay
de dust in de back yard
THERE is a butcher in Fulton market who has
more cause to be grateful to JOSS, the Chinese
god, than any other Caucasian in the city of
New York. He furnishes all the pigs for the
sacrificial purposes of the 900 worshippers of
Joss in that city Brooklyn, and Jersey City.
Sometimes he sells as many as thirty pigs day
| ON single order for this purpose
THE Clifton Tenn,) Times claims that Aunt
Diana Middleton, a negress living near that
place. is the oldest person in the United States.
| She was kidnapped from Africa when a child,
and bears a number of curious tattoo marks
| upon her face, hands and arms She is blind
and almost helpless, As nearly as can be ascer-
tanned her agei between 14 and 100 years.
The $4,000 raft belonging to the McGraws,
| which was swept ashore on Whitefish point,
Mich, during the recent heavy gale, is said to
| present novel appearance. The raft contained
| 4,OO0OOO feet of logs, and they are piled upon
the beach in great mountain of sold pine, the
overwhelming force of the sea driving them
| upon each other until it reared the logs into a
| heap.
A STORY is going the rounds that when Robert
Garrett took charge of the Baltimore and Ohio
system he confessed to a plain spoken friend
who said that he had not brains enough to run
the corporation that the impeachment was true;
but, he said, he had money enough to buy all
the brains that were needed. He seems to have
| invested in rather poor lot, judging from the
results.
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high bluff along Niagara river and Lake Ontario.
The sharpshooters of the Atlantic division of the
United States army are now in annual competi-
ton at old Fort Niagara. Over 500 regular army
officers and priyateS have assembled there. The
range Is said to be one of the best ever planned
by government officers, and the outlook for good
| scores is considered to be excellent.
HUGH WHITFIELD, a Forty miner" died at
| Alameda, Cal, some days ago. and his remains
now rest in monument he had erected some
| years ago, bearing his name, dates of his birth
and death, and this eptaph: He travelled over
| the first railway ever built in England, and
crossed the Atlantic in the first steamship that
| ever ploughed the ocean. He explored many
| lands and died in the fullness of the faith.
| Amen"
SAMUEL GERBER has been digging for water
on his farm west of Argenta Ill. He not only
| succeeded in getting water at depth of forty
six feet, but struck natural gas There is a con
slant disturbance in the bottom of the we'll the
| noise being similar to that of boiling water
Several times the water has risen to a depth of
| twenty feet in the well within ten minutes,
| and In about the same length of time would en-
| tirely disappear.
| VALUABLE DIsINFECTING COMPOUND for puri-
| flying the atmosphere is described in a Berlin
| journal. Oils of rosemary. lavender, and
| thyme, in the proportion of ten. two and one
| half, and two and one-half parts, respectively,
J are mixed with nitric acid in the proportion of
thirty to one and one-half. Simple as it is the
vapor of this compound is said to possess extra
| ordinary properties in controlling offensive
| odoTS and ef1iuvia.
IT is not generally known that pearl fishing is
| carried on in rivers of Saxony family by
| the name Of Schmerler has for generations had
| the monopoly of following this pursuit for the
| benefit of the State. The Weiss Ester and its
| tributaries furnished last year 100 pearls For
| merly the yield was much greater and in the
! sixteenth century pearl fishing was considered
| In SaXony of rather more Importance than the
mining industries.
PHILETUs LAPHAM of Battle Creek township,
| Calhoun county, Michigan, owns the very mead
| dow wherein the battle was fought that gives
the creek its name. The soil is still rich
with arrow heads, stone tomahaWks, and other
implements of ancient American warfare Re-
Gently he found copper spear head 616 inches
long and over inch wide the metal Of which
had been chilled until it will cut steel 1t is re-
garded as quite valuable.
<hN iet'iJ IcSiuiilB III fdSO gel NOrte,
on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, bought
in FL Paso the other day handsome little house
clock, with an alarm attachment To avoid
custom house dues she hid the clock in her
hustle and started for home, much delighted
with her clever device. Just as the Mexican
collector of tariff stepped up to ask if she had
any dutiable articles in her possession the alarm
meanly went off. Tue Mexican gallantly with
drew. The lady almost tainted, and was assisted
to her residence by friends, who happily met
her at the end of the bridge.
The Courter-JourndIs Washington cores
pendent has unearthed an old book entitled
Belle Britain on Tour" from which he copies
a letter written from Washington in 1858. The
letter writer says: THE great staples of Ken
lucky are whisky and women. | have kissed
both, and prefer the latter" Referring by name
TO Messrs. Prentice. Shipman barney, and Hal
deman editors respectively, of the Journal
Democrat and Courier he says: They are in
ability and manners, above the average of the
fraternity" adding, also, that their daily
newspapers are ably conducted and widely
known"
SEVERAL months ago the authorities of Wells
vile, o., took advantage Of the Dow law and
closed the saloons in that place. An organiza-
ton was formed and efforts TO have the ordi-
nance repealed were made but were unsuccess-
ful. Then the organization adopted new tactics
and decided to boycott the whole town unless
the saloons were opened. In following out their
plan they have sought the markets at another
place, and now are buying groceries and meats